Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Error
Hi, On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:34 AM, f4tm...@web.de wrote: I simply took another PC, now it works. Got freedos on the hd. Only thing that would be neat is USB mouse support. Read about USBMOUSE and added dos=high device=himem.exe device=usbaspi.sys device=di1000dd.sys to FDCONFIG.SYS - unfortunatelly without success. First of all, where did you read about this? AFAIK, things like usbaspi.sys and di1000dd.sys are not provided by FreeDOS (probably for licensing reasons), only third-party sites. I'm not aware of any good place that recommends these drivers. Is a special driver for that 25pin serial interface necessary? No idea. And USB overall isn't well-supported. The most FreeDOS supports is Bret's tools, but I can't guarantee it'll work for you. IIRC, it's old UHCI only. Try it and see. http://www.bretjohnson.us/ http://bretjohnson.us/programs/usbdos.zip -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Error
Hi Mike, I simply took another PC, now it works. Got freedos on the hd. Only thing that would be neat is USB mouse support. Read about USBMOUSE and added dos=high device=himem.exe device=usbaspi.sys device=di1000dd.sys to FDCONFIG.SYS - unfortunatelly without success. Is a special driver for that 25pin serial interface necessary? That usbaspi is for usb disks / usb sticks / cd / dvd di1000dd is also for usb disks / usb sticks, I think. For cd / dvd, you would also need additional drivers. And as Rugxulo said, the above may have license issues. Usbmouse sounds like one of Bret Johnson's drivers: Read the manual, you probably have to load his USB core driver before the mouse one. Maybe you also have to load ctmouse after usbmouse as a third step. Note that often the BIOS (if you enable USB legacy support in the CMOS setup) already makes your USB mouse look (towards DOS) as if it would be a PS/2 mouse, which you can use with ctmouse (try 1.9, 2.0 or 2.1, if one version fails, another one may work) without having to load any USB drivers :-) What do you mean by 25 pin serial interface, do you have an old 9/25 pin COM port mouse somewhere, not just USB? Regards, Eric -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Error
Hi! MD5 is okay and I burnt it with the slowest speed setting (1x). Still the same. From the complete base package not a single one could be installed (There were 68 errors and 0 non-fatal warnings.). If I have to guess: Maybe the installer is on the virtual floppy drive and the CD-ROM driver does not recognize your drive? Do you see any FreeDOS content on the D: or E: drives? In general, there should be an area with lots of ZIP files with the packages on your CD: If the installer has issues, try telling it where the zips are, or if all else fails, just unzip the files to the freedos dir on your target disk (e.g. DOS partition on harddisk) as unzipping is the main install step anyway. You will still miss the other installer details done with the ZIPs, but you will have the contents :-) Eric PS: Try setting the controller to which your CD/DVD or BluRay drive is connected to non-AHCI/non-RAID, using your BIOS CMOS setup. Despite of the failed installation the harddisk seems to be bootable because it complains: Loading FreeDOS No KERNEL SYS I guess I just have to put the right files into the proper folder (C:\FDOS)? But which files do I have to copy from the CD? The files from the E:\FREEDOS\PACKAGES folder? Unzip them onto the HD? -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Error
If you want to experiment, you may have to customize a floppy specific to your PC; then re-burn a CD with your floppy image. I had to do this with an HP Elite 8000. I eliminated the eltorito.sys driver and loaded UIDE and it worked fine after that. (also had to do a similar workaround with a Compaq Armada 1700/1750 laptop due to the CD-ROM being a slave). On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:34 AM, f4tm...@web.de wrote: I simply took another PC, now it works. Got freedos on the hd. Only thing that would be neat is USB mouse support. Read about USBMOUSE and added dos=high device=himem.exe device=usbaspi.sys device=di1000dd.sys to FDCONFIG.SYS - unfortunatelly without success. Is a special driver for that 25pin serial interface necessary? If I have to guess: Maybe the installer is on the virtual floppy drive and the CD-ROM driver does not recognize your drive? Do you see any FreeDOS content on the D: or E: drives? In general, there should be an area with lots of ZIP files with the packages on your CD: If the installer has issues, try telling it where the zips are, or if all else fails, just unzip the files to the freedos dir on your target disk (e.g. DOS partition on harddisk) as unzipping is the main install step anyway. You will still miss the other installer details done with the ZIPs, but you will have the contents :-) -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Error
I simply took another PC, now it works. Got freedos on the hd. Only thing that would be neat is USB mouse support. Read about USBMOUSE and added dos=high device=himem.exe device=usbaspi.sys device=di1000dd.sys to FDCONFIG.SYS - unfortunatelly without success. Is a special driver for that 25pin serial interface necessary? If I have to guess: Maybe the installer is on the virtual floppy drive and the CD-ROM driver does not recognize your drive? Do you see any FreeDOS content on the D: or E: drives? In general, there should be an area with lots of ZIP files with the packages on your CD: If the installer has issues, try telling it where the zips are, or if all else fails, just unzip the files to the freedos dir on your target disk (e.g. DOS partition on harddisk) as unzipping is the main install step anyway. You will still miss the other installer details done with the ZIPs, but you will have the contents :-) -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Error
Hi, On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 8:59 AM, f4tm...@web.de wrote: I'm getting errors during CD installation of Freedos 1.1 (base + util). You mean an actual CD-R (or similar) burned with fd11src.iso (40 MB)? So no virtual machine? Did you verify the md5sum to make sure you downloaded it correctly? http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/fd11src.md5 2e0ab23bec79ff33071d80ea26f124dc fd11src.iso Or maybe you need to reburn it at a slower speed? Seems it doesn't find the package: ERROR! Failed to install REQUIRED package Doesn't find what exactly? Or maybe you don't know which piece? Path is set to F:\FREEDOS\PACKAGES Maybe there's a slash missing at the end but I cannot enter the line (or don't know how to). What can I do? I need that for a very old machine software. Certainly you don't need full BASE + UTIL at all, only kernel and shell plus a few other common things. At worst you could do a manual installation. So you're trying to run on real hardware? What cpu + RAM? What kind of software is it, and what does it need (XMS, EMS, DPMI, mouse)? -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Error
Hi, On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:22 AM, f4tmike f4tm...@web.de wrote: Yes, the fdllrs.iso is burnt on a CD-R. Didn't verify the checksum and didn't burn on slowest speed. Can you check the md5sum of your existing .iso file? Or did you delete it? On a different machine? Also, if possible, burn another CD, this time on slowest speed, to hopefully avoid errors. How does a manual installation work? Use a linux live CD and copy a few files on the hard disk? I'm fairly certain that Linux partitions tools (e.g. GParted) can create FAT partitions. But it won't be bootable without a boot sector, which usually needs to be created by SYS.COM, usually from DOS itself. Although Eric Auer did have a Linux version (using Perl?): http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/specials/sys-freedos-linux.zip If you have a floppy drive (or can use a USB one), you can use any old boot disk to fdisk, format, and sys. That's minimal. Then, after that, yes you can just copy files as needed. Yes, it's real hardware. It's an old Fujitsu Siemens Desktop with 500MB RAM. Don't got the specs right now. Your hints and questions are already a good start. Thanks a lot! Good luck. -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Error
Yes, the fdllrs.iso is burnt on a CD-R. Didn't verify the checksum and didn't burn on slowest speed. How does a manual installation work? Use a linux live CD and copy a few files on the hard disk? Yes, it's real hardware. It's an old Fujitsu Siemens Desktop with 500MB RAM. Don't got the specs right now. Your hints and questions are already a good start. Thanks a lot! -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Error
MD5 is okay and I burnt it with the slowest speed setting (1x). Still the same. From the complete base package not a single one could be installed (There were 68 errors and 0 non-fatal warnings.). Despite of the failed installation the harddisk seems to be bootable because it complains: Loading FreeDOS No KERNEL SYS I guess I just have to put the right files into the proper folder (C:\FDOS)? But which files do I have to copy from the CD? The files from the E:\FREEDOS\PACKAGES folder? Unzip them onto the HD? -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Installation Error
Hello, I'm getting errors during CD installation of Freedos 1.1 (base + util). Seems it doesn't find the package: ERROR! Failed to install REQUIRED package Path is set to F:\FREEDOS\PACKAGES Maybe there's a slash missing at the end but I cannot enter the line (or don't know how to). What can I do? I need that for a very old machine software. BR Mike -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
